Google is not a party in the case, but some of the infringement seems to be claimed due to the Google Android software included on HTC's handheld devices. Some commentators even say Google is the real target.[3]

Some articles have suggested one disputed issue is "multi-touch" - using two fingers to manipulate things on your phone. For example, doing a pinching motion to zoom out from a picture. Here are older papers and videos discussing similar ideas:

Krueger's VIDEODESK idea is, in some ways, the logical extension of video screens that respond to touch. All that would be needed, he says, is a video camera suspended over an empty desk and a flat display screen on a wall. The fingers would do the walking: selecting items from a menu, typing, finger plainting, doing graphic design--any of the myriad things that two hands and ten fingers can specify.